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dragontangram88@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt might have been real leather. It smelled like it, as it burned. The online sites I read said nothing of turning off the oven. Everyone who swore by this said to put it in there at 350F for fifteen minutes.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’ve never heard of this and I’ve got absolutely no idea if this is a real thing or if you got pranked as someone said. But assuming it’s a real thing, I can think of two possible explanations why it went so badly for you:
First option, you used a toaster oven instead of a regular oven. The surfaces closest to the heating elements in this case get exposed to a lot more heat than the rest of what’s in the oven. If the heating element is exposed, it’s a toaster oven.
Second option, your oven’s temperature knob isn’t calibrated well enough so it got way hotter than it needs to be. Honestly I’ve got no idea how well these are usually calibrated. I have the exact same model toaster oven as my parents and theirs gets way hotter for the same knob position. But it’s a cheapo brand (I can barely bring myself to call it a brand) so I hope it’s better in the broader market, and maybe proper ovens are better calibrated than microwave-sized toaster ovens.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
On second look, the burn marks are obviously only on the top surface so I’m pretty convinced you used a toaster oven. The difference is like standing in direct sunlight vs in the shade. When you’re in the shade the only thing heating you is the air, when you’re in direct sunlight the sunlight itself is heating you. You can also feel a similar effect when sitting around a fire - your skin facing in the direction of the fire gets toasted while the rest of you, or parts of you that are blocked from it, are cooler.
TL;DR you toasted your mitt
dragontangram88@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It does look like a toaster oven did it, but it was just a regular oven. I set it on the bars and it actually began melting between them. Image
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Leather doesn’t melt. You put a vinyl glove in an oven.
dragontangram88@lemmy.world 8 months ago
False@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I promise you full size ovens can have exposed heat elements.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Sure. Did I get the terminology wrong? In either case the exposed heating element toasts the contents, rather than just baking them, which may be undesirable depending on what you’re making. The size of the oven doesn’t matter.